Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh we did so much work yesterday Sid . |
| 2 | In the end only 11 per cent said they did not particularly lose more inches than previous dieting attempts had produced . |
| 3 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 4 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 5 | Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) . |
| 6 | Although this is true in relation to the intellectual background from which both Sutherland and Cressey were writing , it is nevertheless the case that Cressey , in particular , was sufficiently part of the positivist tradition to be interested in a precise , quantifiable theory which did not automatically rule out such mechanistic approaches . |
| 7 | Other composers did not yet differentiate so sharply between secular and sacred idioms ; even Palestrina introduced madrigalian elements — with beautiful effect — in his settings from the Song of Songs , while Victoria toward the end of his life , in 1600 , broke into a much more surprisingly secular vein in a Missa pro victoria with organ , modelled on Janequin 's ‘ La guerre ’ . |
| 8 | The fact that the lane runs so wide and straight also tells us that when it came into existence the open arable fields of Barton and Wootton did not yet extend so far . |
| 9 | In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science . |
| 10 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 11 | A Metropolitan authority said that they did not yet know how much their training allocation from the central training budget would be , as training is organized to coincide with the academic year . |
| 12 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | But John Evans , for the national executive , insisted that it was unreasonable to tie the party to a strict timetable since scientists and technologists did not yet agree on how nuclear plants could be decommissioned safely . |
| 14 | Peggy did not immediately go downstairs but went to her own room . |
| 15 | However , its appearance in June 1975 did not immediately bring about any action on the part of the Secretary of State . |
| 16 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 17 | She did not immediately come back with an answer , but looked at him steadily for some seconds before she said , ‘ That 's why you think you 've got me here for good , is n't it , Father ? |
| 18 | After leaving her daughter in the brightly lit and chatter-filled house she did not immediately drive away . |
| 19 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 20 | He did not completely rule out qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues . |
| 21 | Wells , who worked for Geary 's at 22 Cross Street , almost opposite Oliver 's tobacconist , had described a man in the near vicinity whose description did not completely tie in with many of the other witnesses . |
| 22 | Annesley Brittanias did not normally venture away from the Nottingham to London semi-fasts but 70048 had worked a freight to Staveley . |
| 23 | He did not even care when the teachers stared and some of the bigger boys made rude jokes about her shapely legs and body . |
| 24 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |
| 25 | Owen did not even go back to his office . |
| 26 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 27 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 28 | He did not even notice when one of his class became stuck in the hole in the floorboards and was there all day until Endill had the idea of smearing him with butter to slide him out . |
| 29 | She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face . |
| 30 | She did not even notice when the soldiers waved her on . |